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Chicago Pain Center’s Multidisciplinary Program Sees the Whole Patient, ‘Not Just a Back or Arm’
The AbilityLab Pain Management Center treats patients with a multitude of pain conditions, including low back, neck and arthritis pain, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome.
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WTTW Profiles Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s “Pioneering” Center for Bionic Medicine
A recent story on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program highlighted the next generation of bionic limbs being developed at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The story featured Terry Karpowicz, a Chicago sculptor who has used prosthetics since losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident in 1975.
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Person-Centered Planning Central to Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Lead Full Lives
By the 1980s, some social scientists and disability advocates were making the case that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) should have more say in where and how they lived. Yet when social workers asked people with IDD those questions, the residents were often at a loss.
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Experience of Robotic Exoskeleton Use at Four Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Centers
Publication that describes clinicians' experiences, evaluations, and training strategies using robotic exoskeletons in sci rehabilitation
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Bridgette Schram, PhD, project manager in CROR’s Rehabilitation and Research Training Center on HCBS
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Announcing C-STAR, New NIH-Funded Infrastructure Center
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab has been awarded a prestigious P2C grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real-World Outcomes (C-STAR).
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ABC7: Chicago coronavirus survivor returns home after 10 weeks in 2 hospitals, rehab center
It took two and a half months, but Marian Steele fought COVID-19 and won, and now she's back home.
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HANDS: A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
A study to investigate the effectiveness of daily acute intermittent hypoxia therapy (dAIH), coupled with a massed practice intervention or the use of high repetition training.
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18-70
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Max Näder Center Partnering with AbbVie to Study Investigational Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury
The Max Näder Center is partnering with AbbVie to evaluate the potential of an investigational monoclonal antibody that may help in the treatment of spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions.
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research
Post-Doctoral Fellow, CROR, will assist in the design, development, execution, and implementation of research and/or in collaboration with a CROR team.
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